Intravenous iron therapy results in rapid and sustained rise in myocardial iron content through a novel pathway.

Background And Aims: Intravenous iron therapies contain iron-carbohydrate complexes, designed to ensure iron becomes bioavailable via the intermediary of spleen and liver reticuloendothelial macrophages. How other tissues obtain and handle this iron remains unknown. This study addresses this question in the context of the heart.

Adaptive Sports in Spinal Cord Injury: a Systematic Review.

Purpose Of Review: Adaptive sports (AdS), sports modified or created to accommodate persons with disabilities, have been gaining popularity over the last decade. The benefits of exercise in the able-bodied population are well-established. Literature in adaptive sport and the para-athlete continues to improve but is not yet as comprehensive as their able-bodied peers, in part due to the heterogeneity of participants.

Perceptions of horizontal violence in staff nurses and intent to leave.

Background: The impact of horizontal violence is multifaceted. From the impact upon the individual, the unit, and the institution, horizontal violence affects professional nursing activities in a variety of aspects of health care.

Objective: To examine registered nurses' experiences with horizontal violence and explore the relationship between horizontal violence and intent to leave.

Development of rabbit monoclonal antibodies for detection of alpha-dystroglycan in normal and dystrophic tissue.

Alpha-dystroglycan requires a rare O-mannose glycan modification to form its binding epitope for extracellular matrix proteins such as laminin. This functional glycan is disrupted in a cohort of muscular dystrophies, the secondary dystroglycanopathies, and is abnormal in some metastatic cancers. The most commonly used reagent for detection of alpha-dystroglycan is mouse monoclonal antibody IIH6, but it requires the functional O-mannose structure for recognition.